How do we ensure equitable access to low-carbon retrofit solutions to improve the efficiency of homes and buildings? NEEP’s tools streamline resource-intensive processes to offer cost-effective and transparent solutions. This session will explore NEEP’s tools and the challenges they address (WHY we developed them). The session will encourage the audience to tackle problems with innovative solutions to advance market transformation goals. HELIX is a central repository of home energy information (home energy labels, certifications, solar PV, etc.) built to automatically populate the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and real estate listings. By increasing the transparency and accessibility of this information, HELIX can also be used to support policy and program management, motivate investments in efficiency improvements, track code compliance, increase economic development, and more! Energy Estimator is an automated energy modeling tool that provides a cost-effective solution for generating a preliminary annual cost estimate. By providing a first look into a home’s energy performance, the tool can educate and motivate homeowners to take the next steps of an in-home audit. The tool also supports labeling programs by generating a customizable home energy label, real estate programs, supports virtual audits, and can triage best-fit candidates for retrofit candidates BEAM is a scalable tool to help cities or states manage building performance standards for existing buildings. It is based on the Department of Energy’s Standardized Energy Efficiency Database (SEED) to collect and manage benchmarking data from commercial and large multifamily buildings. BEAM tracks compliance based on the municipality’s policy and provides a platform for easy communication between the energy office and building owners. Collecting benchmarking data and tracking compliance is resource intensive and confusing. BEAM streamlines the process and opens the doors for communities both small and large to implement cutting-edge benchmarking and building performance standard policies. TEP reinvents the approach to residential energy retrofits. In today’s market, most building energy contractors focus on their line of products and services - weatherization or HVAC or solar - but rarely do they consider an optimized comprehensive package of all of these measures bundled for a building. TEP, in effect, is a unique, integrated approach to retrofitting existing buildings to be as energy-efficient and renewably powered as financially possible. Through TEP, projects incorporate air sealing and insulation, highly efficient and renewably-powered mechanical systems (e.g. heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, etc.), and solar photovoltaic electricity generation. By using the bundled approach, contractors are able to move homeowners to 50%-100% total energy savings with a pre-and post-project analysis.